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most citedThe Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

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astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

TDE 2025abcr: A Tidal Disruption Event in the Outskirts of a Massive Galaxy

Robert Stein, Jonathan Carney, Charlotte Ward +27

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) have traditionally been discovered in optical sky surveys through targeted searches of nuclear transients. However, it is expected that some TDEs wil…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

AT2019cmw: A highly luminous, cooling featureless TDE candidate from the disruption of a high mass star in an early-type galaxy

Jacob L. Wise, Daniel A. Perley, Nikhil Sarin +23

We present optical/UV photometric and spectroscopic observations, as well as X-ray and radio follow-up, of the extraordinary event AT2019cmw. With a peak bolometric luminosity of ~…

astro-ph.HE2020

TDE Hosts are Green and Centrally Concentrated: Signatures of a Post-Merger System

Erica Hammerstein, Suvi Gezari, Sjoert van Velzen +17

We study the properties of the galaxies hosting the first 19 tidal disruption events (TDEs) detected with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) within the context of a carefully cons…

astro-ph.HE2020

A Family Tree of Optical Transients from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham +17

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has discovered five new events belonging to an emerging class of AGN undergoing smooth flares with large amplitudes and rapid rise times. This s…

astro-ph.HE2020

A luminous X-ray transient in SDSS J143359.16+400636.0: a likely tidal disruption event

Murray Brightman, Charlotte Ward, Daniel Stern +9

We present the discovery of a luminous X-ray transient, serendipitously detected by Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT) on 2020 February 5, located in the nucleus of the galaxy SDSS J143…

astro-ph.HE2020

A mildly relativistic outflow from the energetic, fast-rising blue optical transient CSS161010 in a dwarf galaxy

D. L. Coppejans, R. Margutti, G. Terreran +35

We present X-ray and radio observations of the Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT) CRTS-CSS161010 J045834-081803 (CSS161010 hereafter) at t=69-531 days. CSS161010 shows luminous X-r…